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Issue: Vol. 258 No. 1: 4 Aug. 2003
Type: Article
Published: 2003-08-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.258.1.1
Page range: 1–8
Abstract views: 44
PDF downloaded: 6

Macrobiotus polonicus, a new species of Tardigrada from Poland (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae, ‘hufelandi group’)

Department of Animal Biology “Marcello La Greca”, University of Catania, Italy
Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, A. Mickiewicz University, Szamarzewskiego 91 a, 60-569 Poznañ, Poland
Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Ingardena 6, 30-060 Kraków, Poland
Department of Animal Biology “Marcello La Greca”, University of Catania, Italy
Tardigrada ‘hufelandi group’ Macrobiotus polonicus sp. nov. Poland

Abstract

A new species of the ‘Macrobiotus hufelandi group’, Macrobiotus polonicus sp. nov., is described from Poland. It is very similar to M. persimilis Binda & Pilato, 1972 but differs from it by having two characteristic lateral gibbosities on the hind legs, a narrower buccal tube, more slender claws, less developed lunules of the hind legs with less evident marginal indentations and eggs with fewer processes slightly different in shape.

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